Process of making horseshoe rands



April 10, 1928.

, o. T. CRAFTS PROCESS OF MAKING HORSESHOE RANDS Filed Jan. 28. 1927 Patented Apr. 10, 1928.

U NITED PATENT- oF-FI OTIS T. CRAFTS, OF MANCHESTER NEW IIAMPSHIRE, ASSIGNOR TO CRAFTS PROCESS,

INQ, OF MANCHESTER, NEW I-IAMIPSIIIRE, A CORPORATION OF MAINE PROCESS OF MAKING. HORSESHOE BANDS Applicationfiled January 28, 1927. Serial No. 164,20

tion isthe provision of a horseshoe rand which will be extremely economical to manufacture, and which will have all of the advantages of present commercial horseshoe ,rands. The present horseshoe rand is manu-f factured, died out, or cut from veryeXpensive heavy leather stock, this having. -been considered the only feasible way in which such a horseshoe rand could be produced. ,However, I have discoveredthat a horseshoe rand can be constructed from the cheapest of leather materials, such asscrap leather, pieces of leather which have heretofore been considered waste, skivings, or in fact practically any form ofinexpensive leather pieces or scrapsmay be utilized in carrying out mypresent invention,

Fundamentally considered,the present invention consists in utilizing a pluralityof pieces of scrap or wasteleather, assembling these pieces in rough form, dieing sameout to a true horseshoe shape, andthen gouging or bevelling in .said'assembled sections a" suitable concavity forapplicationto the heel seat of a shoe. I also contemplate, neces sary, skiving or levelling; said -assembledsections to the proper finished height ofthe outside edge, in the eventthat such assem; bled portions or sections shouldbehigher than required.

In my prior and cos-pending application,

Serial No. 56,112, filed September. 14,1925,

I haveillustrated one. method of forming a heel base with a randdikerim cut directly insaid base, instead of, utilizinga separate rand structure. The surface of the blank into which the rand-like rim is formed as described in said co-pending application, is preferably comprised of two half sections, meeting at a line substantially central of the rear portion of the base. hen subjected ture of a horseshoe rand as described in the.

present application. ,Due to thecuttingflac tion of the gouging or bevelling. machine, in formingtheheel base of my saidpriofr ap;

plication, portions of the-severed pieceslare i already bevelled, and lend themselves with peculiar adaptability tobeing assembled. and' secured together for the} subsequent dieing? therefrom of a horseshoerand blank, I These pieces are assembled for such purpose with} out any further cutting or forming, opera tion. I

Subsequent to bein g died in the horse,'-

shoe rand blank shape, if such blank is of height greater than that. required-for the finished edge height of the rand, I may sub-f ject said blank to a levelling or skiving oper'ation to reduce saidblank'tothe desired he ght. Subsequent to the levelling oper: ation, 1f same is required, I then subjectthe blank to a further cutting operation, which cutting operation is designedto gougeor cut a suitable concavity within the confines'o f the edge of the rand to adapt Jthe rand for ready and even fitting to the heel seat of a shoe. In its completed formand when applied to the shoe, sucha rand isaundisr tinguishable from a'rand manufactured from expensive heavy leather stock, the'overlap pingedges of the united sectionsoi pieces forming the rand be ngsubstant ally unnoticeable in the completed article.

I believe that such ahorseshoe rand, com

prised of a plurality of overlappingf sec; tions, and constructed fromn ateria-l of' little or no-value, and yetresultingin a randlof equal qualifications with the expensive horse-f shoe rand heretofore produced, is novel, and

I therefore claim the s ame hereinlbroadly.

Further features of the invention, novel combinations of parts, and advantages, will: e n er' oref ly p nt d; i t nd? claimed.

Referring to the drawings, illustrating a preferred embodinrient of the"invention Fig. 1 illustrates a heel base, in which a rand-like rim has been formed;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the portion severed during the forming of the rand-like rim in the base of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a perspective of three of these half pieces united togther in rough form;

Fig. 4 is a perspective of the horseshoe rand blank died from the structure of Fig. 3;

Fig. 5 is a side elevation illustrating the reduction of the blank of Fig. 4 to desired appreciated that I am not limited thereto,

but may utilize any pieces of scrap, waste or inexpensiveleather stock which can be as sembledin th'e relative formation as illustrated in Fig. 3. However, I find that these half pieces severed from the base of my said .co-pending application are peculiarly well adapted for the purpose herein described, and I have therefore illustrated the rand of thelpresent application as constructed therefrom. c

As shown in the drawings, the base 1 is composed of a plurality of layers 2, 3 and 4. In the layer 3 has been formed a suitable heel seat concavity, with a rand-like rim around the edge thereof. In Fig. 2, at 5, is

severed from the base 1 during theprocess of manufacture. This section 5 comprises two strips or pieces 6, roughly formed in equal halves. I separate these strips 6, and assemble any desired number of same, in the form shown in Fig. 3. As shown in Fig. 3, I have utilized three of these strips 6, and have assembled same withthe flesh side up, the flesh side being the side with the bevelled surface thereon. c

As shown in Fig. 3, the three strips 6 areunited at 7, 7 the bevelled surfaces (:0- operating to form a fairly even top and bottom surface to the structure of Fig. 3, The strips 6 are preferably glued, cemented or otherwise secured at the contacting" portions 7. w

After being thus assembled, as illustrated in Fig. 3, the rough blank is then subjected to a dieing operation, as a result of which the horseshoe rand blank 8 formed. This blank 8 in Fig. 1, illustrates very clearly the line of jointure of the bevelled surfaces 7 and the evenness with which such a blank is formed from the rough structure of Fig. 3.

In the event that. the blank 8 higher than required for the completed heel base otherwise Waste material.

I may subject same to a skiving or levelling operation, removing therefrom the surplus of material not required, here designated generally as the strip 9. When reduced to the proper and desired finished height, the blank 8 is then subjected to a cutting or gouging opertion, producing a suitable and desirable concavity within the outer rim of the blank, and resulting in the completed rand 10 illustrated in perspective in Fig. 6.

Thus it will be seen that I have produced a true horseshoe rand from inexpensive and trated and described herein is applicable in all places Where prior expensivehorseshoe rands could be utilized, on the most expensive shoes, and will stand up, in use, equally as well as the prior horseshoe rands. The rand of the present invention will also take the edge finishing and burnishing, inking, and other finishing operations, equally as well and thoroughly as prior rands.

While I have necessarily described my present invention somewhat in detail, it will be appreciated that I am not limited to the specific form of'pieces utilized to formmy illustrated generally the piece or section present rand, but may vary the. size and shape of these pieces, as well as the size and shape of my novel rand, within wide limits Without departing from the spirit of the invention. w

My invention is further described and-dd fined in the form of a claim as follows That improvement in the artof produc- The rand illusing leather rands for use in the manufacture of boot and shoe heels, which consists in as sembling a plural ty Ofl' waste leather sections of varying thickness, each. section** formed from wedge-like waste material,

utilizing such sections with the thicker edge of the wedgelike portionpositioned the outermostedge of theqfinishedrand, over lapping and securing the wedge-like sections together by adhesive independent of sepa rate scarfing or bevelling actions "on the contacting surfaces of said sections, applying pressure thereto, dieing out the united sections into desired horseshoe form, and there- 1 name to this specification.

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